Re: You Can't Buy This PR...
Tenacious
10/25/2011 12:35:52 AM
I can tell you one thing--if I had little kids, I would not have taken them to a sleepover in Zuccotti Park. What if something had happened? Why put the kids at risk?
I DEMAND equal opportunity cupcake distribution
Bargain Bin
10/25/2011 12:35:33 AM
Really, I can't think of anything sadder than getting denied cupcakes. Unless they're one of the 34% that think the US government is worse than Al Qaeda. They deserve nothing.
Re: You Can't Buy This PR...
Drivewaygirl
10/25/2011 12:26:14 AM
I agree driven. I want more: I need an adenda, an outline of proposed policy, ideas to debate. A lot of rhetoric is just noise.
Re: You Can't Buy This PR...
driven
10/25/2011 12:16:52 AM
OWS makes me sad. A basic good premise lost in a mish mash of extremism and hyperbole. Oy vay.
Re: You Can't Buy This PR...
Broadway
10/24/2011 10:51:24 PM
I walked through the OWS campground here in Philly for the first time. It was interesting ... in that it was empty and very quiet. Not sure if everyone was sleeping, at work, or moved on to another protest site (Eric Cantor was in town at U Penn). But my point it is will peeter out because "normal" people are too busy, too stressed to worry about their crap. The OWS folks need to take a page out of the teabaggers and harrass politicians, not people working for a living.
Joe Klein of Time magazine had a ruthless take on the protests in the issue that came out today.
"The OWS movement...includes a generous measure of weirdos, ideologues and free-range troublemakers. A recent unscientific New York magazine poll of 100 demonstrators found that 34% believed the U.S. government is no better than al-Qaeda. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the OWS protesters managed, before long, to destroy the credibility of a worthy political complaint in a spasm of puerile extremism."
Now, I realize that I'm taking the conversation away from cupcakes, but my larger point, and I think Klein's as well, is that all the cupcakes in the world may not be able to keep these folks from shooting themselves in the foot unless they coordinate their message a bit more--and a bit more quickly.
Good work
BigJim
10/24/2011 6:53:53 PM
I'm enjoying the photographs and stories you're posting about this protests. They give me a better idea of what's really going on than anything else I read about the whole thing.
Re: Only $435K?
Dex
10/24/2011 6:49:48 PM
That number just represents the manhattan collections. Who knows how much was collected in other cities.
I wuld have though that the collections would at least be in the tens of millions by now just off of the popularity and novelty of it all. It seems as though it is starting to wane, and support for OWS is becoming a "passing fancy."
Given the extensive covereage of OWS, I find it surprising that they've only received $435,000 in donations.
Either this number is about to get much, much larger; or we've WAY overestimated the sympathy for this movement in the nation at large.
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